Elena

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

Leer esta autobiografía es como tener una serie de conversaciones con Jorge Castañeda, y conocer también sus amores, manías, debilidades, su ambición por el poder. Es conocer a un hombre de su tiempo, que también es el nuestro. Amarres perros es el testimonio biográfico de Jorge Castañeda, un protagonista de la vida política e intelectual del México de nuestros días. Jorge Castañeda desempeñó un papel relevante en el camino hacia la democracia en este país y que no sólo ha sido testigo de grandes acontecimientos a nivel nacional e internacional, sino también participante. El...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

"Leibniz: Vida y Filosofía" es una obra cautivadora que sumerge a los lectores en la vida excepcional y las contribuciones trascendentales de uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la filosofía racionalista, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. En esta fascinante entrega de la serie dedicada a explorar las vidas y obras de destacados personajes filosóficos, el autor nos guía a través de los detalles íntimos de la vida de Leibniz, desentrañando los momentos formativos y las experiencias que dieron forma a su visión del mundo. Desde sus primeros años hasta su destacada carrera como...